Re: [SQL] Radius of a zip code

2003-12-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 22:19:52 -0700, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incidentally, I see the following in README.earthdistance: > > A note on testing C extensions - it seems not enough to drop a function > and re-create it - if I change a function, I have to stop and restart

Re: [SQL] Anti log in PostgreSQL

2003-12-27 Thread Chris Travers
Definition of log (base n) is that log n(x) = y where n^y = x for all values of x and y. n is the base. So a base 10 log would be reversed by doing 10^x=y. If we know x, we use the exponential operation; if we know y we use log(y) = x. For ln (natural logs, base e, e is approx. 2.818), use e^x=

Re: [SQL] Anti log in PostgreSQL

2003-12-27 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On December 26, 2003 06:37 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > accumulated roundoff in the monetary amounts. I think you will > need to write a little function (in plpgsql or your language of > choice) that performs the sequence of compounding steps, if you > want to get an answer that a banker will like. And

[SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm tyring to create a new table/database/user; and I get some errors. I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:template1=# SELECT version(); version

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Devrim GUNDUZ (Saturday 27 December 2003 10:12) > create_date timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT 'NOW', > change_date timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT 'NOW', Do these actually work? I've always used 'default now()'... > And I get: > > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "tdmalias_mid_seq"

Re: [SQL] Radius of a zip code

2003-12-27 Thread Andy Lewis
Thanks All for your suggestions, I have enough information to construct what I need. -Original Message- From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 8:43 PM To: Andy Lewis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SQL] Radius of a zip code On Fri, Dec 26, 2003

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > ERROR: permission denied for schema pg_catalog > > The user you create the user as needs to have createuser permission. > alter user "foo" with createuser; > > ...(run as an appropriate user

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Devrim GUNDUZ (Saturday 27 December 2003 10:45) > > > ERROR: permission denied for schema pg_catalog > > > > The user you create the user as needs to have createuser permission. > > alter user "foo" with createuser; > > > > ...(run as an appropriate user) will grant the user such permission. > > H

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Devrim GUNDUZ (Saturday 27 December 2003 10:45) > But I still could not understand why the lack of createuser permission > caused the error above... Though I do think a more clear error in this case would be helpful (*hint hint*). Vertu sæll, -- Sigþór Björn Jarðarson (Casey Allen Shobe) [EMAI

Re: [SQL] Radius of a zip code

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe you've already figured it out, but LOAD should allow you to reload >> a .so file without having to restart the backend. > I didn't write that. It came from the person(s) who worked on earthdistance > b

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Lane
Devrim GUNDUZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I get: > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "tdmalias_mid_seq" for > "serial" column "tdmalias.mid" > ERROR: permission denied for schema pg_catalog I can't replicate that here: I get NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit seq

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Lane
Casey Allen Shobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Devrim GUNDUZ (Saturday 27 December 2003 10:45) >> Hmm, that solved the problem, thanks. >> >> But I still could not understand why the lack of createuser permission >> caused the error above... > Because database users (and lots of other database i

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Saturday 27 December 2003 13:50 > This analysis is nonsense ... system catalog operations do not do the > same kinds of permission checks as user queries do. Furthermore, if > he'd not had permissions to create users, the initial CREATE USER > command would have failed, and so would CREATE DATABAS

Re: [SQL] What am I doing wrong in here?

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Lane
Casey Allen Shobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My guess is that Devrim interpreted your suggestion as telling him to >> make the created user (tdmsoftmailserveruser) a superuser, which would >> naturally suppress any and all permissions failures for operations >> executed by that user. > That is